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Gnaniyar Zubair
Gnaniyar Zubair

Reputation: 8176

How to get text box value in JavaScript

I am trying to use JavaScript to get the value from an HTML text box but value is not coming after white space

For example:

<input type="text" name="TxtShort" value="software engineer">

I only get: "software" from the above. I am using a script like this:

var distcode = document.getElementById('<%=TxtShort.ClientID%>').value;

How do I get the full value: "software engineer"?

Upvotes: 110

Views: 877145

Answers (16)

Ameur
Ameur

Reputation: 11

Here is a simple way

document.getElemmentByName("txtJob").getAttribute("value")

Upvotes: 1

user5686005
user5686005

Reputation:

Set id for the textbox. ie,

<input type="text" name="txtJob" value="software engineer" id="txtJob">

In javascript 

var jobValue = document.getElementById('txtJob').value

In Jquery

 var jobValue =  $("#txtJob").val();

Upvotes: 0

JamesC
JamesC

Reputation: 496

This should be simple using jquery:

HTML:

  <input type="text" name="txtJob" value="software engineer">

JS:

  var jobValue = $('#txtJob').val(); //Get the text field value
  $('#txtJob').val(jobValue);        //Set the text field value

Upvotes: 0

27px
27px

Reputation: 477

 var jobValue=document.FormName.txtJob.value;

Try that code above.

jobValue : variable name.
FormName : Name of the form in html.
txtJob : Textbox name

Upvotes: 0

Vikas Sharma
Vikas Sharma

Reputation: 11

because you used space between software engineer html/php will not support space between value under textbox, you have to use this code <input type="text" name="txtJob" value=software_engineer> It will work

Upvotes: 0

Vishal Thakur
Vishal Thakur

Reputation: 1696

You Need to change your code as below:-

<html>
<body>
<div>
<form align="center" method=post>
    <input id="mainText" type="text" align="center"placeholder="Search">

    <input type="submit" onclick="myFunction()" style="position: absolute; left: 450px"/>
</form>
</div>
<script>
function myFunction(){
    $a= document.getElementById("mainText").value;
    alert($a);
        }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

1010
1010

Reputation: 221



The problem is that you made a Tiny mistake!

This is the JS code I use:

var jobName = document.getElementById("txtJob").value;

You should not use name="". instead use id="".

Upvotes: 0

Sham
Sham

Reputation: 59

If you are using ASP.NET, the server-side code tags in these examples below will provide the exact control ID, even if you are using Master pages.

Javascript:

document.getElementById("<%=MyControlName.ClientID%>").value;

JQuery:

$("#<%= MyControlName.ClientID %>").val();

Upvotes: 4

zakara
zakara

Reputation: 91

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<label>Enter your Name here: </label><br>
<input type= text id="namehere" onchange="displayname()"><br>


<script>
function displayname() {
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = 
document.getElementById("namehere").value;
}

</script>


<p id="demo"></p>

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 9

Ranjan Srivastava
Ranjan Srivastava

Reputation: 1

If you are using any user control and want to get any text box values then you can use the below code:

var result = document.getElementById('LE_OtherCostsDetails_txtHomeOwnerInsurance').value;

Here, LE_OtherCostsDetails, is the name of the user control and txtHomeOwnerInsurance is the id of the text box.

Upvotes: 0

ferit
ferit

Reputation: 151

var word = document.getElementById("word").value;//by id
or
var word = document.forms[0].elements[0].value;//by index
//word = a word from form input
var kodlandi = escape(word);//apply url encoding

alert(escape(word));
or
alert(kodlandi);

the problem you are not using encoding for input values from form so not browser adds ones to ...

ontop has some problems as unicode encoding/decoding operations so use this function encoding strings/arrays

function urlencode( str ) 
{
// http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net3.    
// +   original by: Philip Peterson4.    
// +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)5.    
// *     example 1: urlencode('Kevin van Zonneveld!');
// *     returns 1: 'Kevin+van+Zonneveld%21'7. 
   var ret = str; 
   ret = ret.toString();
   ret = encodeURIComponent(ret);
   ret = ret.replace(/%20/g, '+');
   return ret;
}


ex.
var word = "some word";
word = urlencode(word);

Upvotes: 15

Vicky Chaudhary
Vicky Chaudhary

Reputation: 41

Provided when you want the text box value. Simple one:

<input type="text" value="software engineer" id="textbox">

var result = document.getElementById("textbox").value;

Upvotes: 3

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 601

If it is in a form then it would be:

<form name="jojo">
<input name="jobtitle">
</form>

Then you would say in javascript:

var val= document.jojo.jobtitle.value

document.formname.elementname

Upvotes: 3

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536715

+1 Gumbo: ‘id’ is the easiest way to access page elements. IE (pre version 8) will return things with a matching ‘name’ if it can't find anything with the given ID, but this is a bug.

i am getting only "software".

id-vs-name won't affect this; I suspect what's happened is that (contrary to the example code) you've forgotten to quote your ‘value’ attribute:

<input type="text" name="txtJob" value=software engineer>

Upvotes: 65

Daniel A. White
Daniel A. White

Reputation: 191048

Set the id attribute of the input to txtJob. Your browser is acting quirky when you call getElementById.

Upvotes: 4

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655755

Your element does not have an ID but just a name. So you could either use getElementsByName() method to get a list of all elements with this name:

var jobValue = document.getElementsByName('txtJob')[0].value  // first element in DOM  (index 0) with name="txtJob"

Or you assign an ID to the element:

<input type="text" name="txtJob" id="txtJob" value="software engineer">

Upvotes: 81

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